Klavierabend: Beethoven und die Frühromantik

In the organizer's words:

To mark the 200th anniversary of his wonderful fortepiano, which Beethoven's friend Nanette Streicher built in Vienna in 1825, the Institute of Musicology is presenting a concert that will showcase the instrument's sonority in its full range of colors.
The internationally renowned pianist Dmitry Ablogin, professor at the Cologne University of Music since 2024, will play a distinctive program in the Great Hall of the LMU Munich that reveals Beethoven's proximity to the generation of the early Romantics. In addition to Beethoven's late Bagatelles op. 126, the program includes the Piano Sonata in E major op. 6 by the young Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, two nocturnes by the English early Romantic composer John Field and the highly virtuoso Piano Sonata No. 5 in F sharp minor op. 81 by the most important Mozart pupil, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, which is comparable to Beethoven's great sonatas.

Venue: Large auditorium of the LMU

Date and time: 09.05.2025 at 19:30

Program

Welcome and introduction: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schick

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Six Bagatelles op. 126
I. Andante con moto. Cantabile e compiacevole, G major
II Allegro, G minor
III. andante. Cantabile e grazioso, E flat major
IV. Presto, B minor
V. Quasi allegretto, G major
VI. Presto - Andante amabile e con moto, E flat major

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Piano Sonata No. 1 in E major op. 6
I. Allegretto con espressione
II. Tempo di Menuetto - Più Vivace
III. Recitativo: Adagio e senza tempo - Andante - Allegretto con espressione
IV. Molto Allegro e vivace - Allegretto con espressione

- Pause - - -

John Field (1782-1837)
Nocturne No. 10 in E minor - Adagio (Melancolie)
Nocturne No. 4 in A major - Poco Adagio

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Grand Sonata for Piano No. 5 in F sharp minor op. 81
I. Allegro
II. Largo con molto espressione
III. finale - Vivace

Free admission, but we kindly ask for donations at the exit.